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Awesome Linux Desktop Awesome

This aims to showcase the best desktop environments, configurations, and display managers for Linux. Please leave a ⭐ if you like this project!
⚠️ Currently Under Construction, Contributions Welcome! Thanks!

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Desktop Environments

KDE Plasma

A feature-rich medium weight desktop environment developed by KDE. It is designed to be simple by default but to have many options for customization. It also comes up with KDE's suite of apps, such as Discover, Dolphin and KDE Connect.

GNOME

A very popular desktop environment that is used as the default of many linux distributions. It is more of a heavy-weight desktop environemnt, and attempts to be an easy to use and elegant. It is designed to be simple, with many options avaliable through extensions.

Cinnamon

A medium weight desktop environment developed by the team behind Linux Mint. It is designed to be user-freindly above all else. It is designed with traditional computing in mind. It is a fork of GNOME 3.

Budgie

XFCE

A desktop environment that aims to the lightest possible desktop environment for Linux. A main focus is making the desktop enviornment modular, and giving choice back to the user. Out of the box, it is very basic, to allow the user many customizations.

LXQt

A lightweight Qt desktop environment. It is designed to be out of the user's way and focus on speed over looks. It is focused on being a classic desktop with a modern look and feel.

Mate

A popular continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

Deepin

A very visually-appealing desktop environment that was built for Deepin Linux.

Cosmic

⚠️ Currently in Alpha, may have breaking changes. An innovative Desktop Environment that it is being built by System 76 entierely in Rust. It is designed to be useful for all users, and utilize modularity in order to allow customization that suits all users.

Window Managers

i3

Hyperland

Wayfire

Sway

Display Managers

GNOME Display Manager

LightDM

Display Servers

Wayland

X11

Contributing

Please see the contributing.md for the contribution guidelines.

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